Archive - History of Black Writing Blog
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Black Literary History Making
The HBW Blog published regularly for ten years from 2011-2021 at the URL https://projecthbw.ku.edu. During that time, it served as a major forum for the exchange of information and ideas, as well as a robust network for scholars, teachers, and students from different disciplines around the world.
Guest contributors include leading scholars and writers, but most of the posts were conceived of, researched, and written by HBW's staff of undergraduate and graduate students. Its content consists of feature editorials, book reviews, memorials, and coverage of HBW programming. Altogether, 95 writers contributed more than 750 posts.
The HBW Blog Archive is searchable by topic, month and year, and contributor name.
| Blog Post/Link | Date |
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| Project on the History of Black Writing (HBW) Look Back Series—Featuring Jerry W. Ward Featuring literary critic, poet, and scholar Jerry W. Ward, Jr. is not an easy task... | |
| Dr. Jerry Ward on Edwidge Danticat It is hard to classify Edwidge Danticat, to map where her imagination is located between the future and the past. She writes well. This adverbial compliment identifies her as a successful rebel. She satisfies the demands of commerce and undermines those demands in her critiques of banality... | |
| Alice Walker, Autobiographical Contract, and Sciences of Memory Definition is essential. What does womanist mean and what is its relation to feminist? Does the assertion that womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender explain saturation as a major difference in historical experience? .. | |
| A Letter to Kalamu Ya Salaam The ideas for the book on the sound(ing) of black poetry remind me of a remarkable (and as you might guess unrecorded) solo performance by the late drummer Freddie Waites — sound so keen so fast you would have sworn the man had an extra pair of arms. .. | |
| Dr. Jerry Ward and the Project on The History of Black Writing This is long overdue. Since 2011, when the HBW literary blog was founded, Board Member- Dr. Jerry W. Ward, Jr. has been its strongest supporter... | |
| HBW Celebrates 30 Years!!! In HBW’s 30 year history, there have been a series of distinguished lectures, institutes, workshops, and scholars, who have contributed much to the advancement of African American Literature and Culture... | |
| HBW and The Literary Blog: Note from the Editor After roughly two and half years of successfully founding and editing the Project on the History of Black Writing blog, and after shifting his focus to the many other areas/hats of his graduate career, Kenton Rambsy deserves much praise for ever expanding, digging, and creating an on-line presence and intellectual home for African-American Literature and Culture... | |
| And the Beat Goes On….New Direction on the HBW Blog On February 22, 2011, I founded the HBW blog in the attempt to fill a void—that void being a no central online resource dedicated to writing about African American novels and its history... | |
| Blogging About African American Literature—Various Topics related to Black Novels and Autobiographies ♦100 Novels: Trend Analyses Project—February 22, 2011 ♦The Great Migration—March 1, 2011 ♦Men and Migration—Revisited—March 15, 2011.. | |
| African American Literary History—Timelines and Resources ♦The Evolution of Novel Covers—December 1, 2011 ♦The Growing Importance of Authors Awarded Fellowships—December 2, 2011 ♦49 African American Novels on Wikipedia—December 5, 2011.. |